Scale is important too.
Most marauder bands are likely to be small, squad-to-company sized units who survive through simple banditry. They would be a continuous nuisance to military units and a bane to undefended civilians. This would be your most likely encounter in a standard T2K game.
You might, however, encounter a much larger, battalion-to-regimental sized unit that moves through the countryside raiding and pilaging. This group would likely be a former military unit that mutinied or deserted whole-sale but continues to operate as a coherent formation. These groups would be much more rare and considerably more dangerous. In many ways, they would resemble the Free Companies of the Hundred Years War.
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